Euripides

Palestinian loss of land from 1946 to 2000

There are many sad days in the history of Palestine, but two dates are historically remembered to be the saddest, May 15th and June 5th. May 15th is not just a sad day in the history of Palestine but the Arabs as a whole. It is known as "Youm alNakba" which in Arabic means "the day of the catastrophe". It is an annual day of commemoration or rather "commiseration" for the displacement of Palestinian people that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948.

After the Balfour Declaration andLeague of Nations Mandate gave basis for Israel to establish a homeland in Palestine more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and forced to flee their homes and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated and destroyed. Having carried out their massacres and having expelled over 725,000 Palestinians from their homes, and while the UN General Assembly was considering the Trusteeship Plan for Palestine, 37 Zionist leaders representing Zionist parties worldwide met on Friday, May 14, at the Tel Aviv Museum on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv to sign what they called a “Declaration of Independence”.It said that “the state of Israel will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations”. We all know that this has not been the case.

June 5 is known as "Yawm an-Naksa" which in Arabic means "day of the setback". It is the annual day of commemoration for Palestine and the Arabs for the displacement of the Palestinian people that accompanied the Arab's loss of land to Israel's in the 1967 Six-Day Arab-Israeli War. The lost lands were the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. In theOctober War of 1973 Egypt defeated Israel and gained parts of Sinai and after the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979, Israel withdrew from the entirety of Sinai in 1982. However East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, remain occupied territories by Israel until this day.

People are so ignorant, in the UK many people have never heard of Palestine. When I say my mother is Palestinian they look at me confused or say 'so shes Israeli' I wish people knew the truth behind everything!! Long Live Palestine!

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'Noon' here is not mid-day but my actual nickname, which happens to be the first letter of my name and also coincidentally the Arabic grammatical reference for females (noon el nesswah). Here I express my thoughts and comments on various topics ranging from poetry, politics, to personal.
I am Yemeni by birth, Egyptian by choice, Arab by identity. A diplomat's daughter, lived and travelled to many places, thus a citizen of the world with a passion for politics & poetry...A natural born activist.